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<p>gawk!! I should be fired!!!
I’ve forgotten about it totally!! 16,700 views and summer outreach review has passed.</p>

<p>Portfolio Review May 7, 2011
Grades 10 – 11 are eligible to apply.
Courses are held Mon – Thurs from 9am – 3pm</p>

<p>6 week Pre-College program: June 29 – Aug. 10, 2011
Drawing, Writing, Contemporary Art Issues, 2D and 3D design</p>

<p>4 week Drawing Intensive: July 11 – Aug. 4, 2011
Drawing, Writing, Contemporary Art Issues</p>

<p>-so it was last Saturday, coinciding with this art festival New Museum founded and Cooper took part of.
It was called
“Festival of Ideas for the New City”
May 4 -8. it took two years or so in cooking and I remember reading about it in Cooper newsletter. then saw its subway poster few weeks ago but its design was so low-key and hard to tell what it is about, at all. soon after overtaken by movie posters “Bridesmaids” and “Hangover II”</p>

<p>The Saturday was the big day, street art fest on Bowery. suppose kids went to Cooper review might have been able to smelt festivities if gone down yonder Houston.
other than that, Cooper only hosted one or two conference and some bake sale. The students’ show was listed in the festival’s site but not going to open until later in the month so what is the point?</p>

<p>Sunday. nice mother’s day I didn’t feel like working and joined low key gallery walk that was also listed in the festival site.
went around small galleries owned (I mean, rented; owners got dayjobs and few partners together pool dayjob money to pay for the storefront rent, show works by artists they know or support. if works sell, 50/50 profit) by middle-aged women, either themselves artist or activist, organizer of some sort (and do $dayjob)
They don’t want no Chelsea, so they say. community!! Lower Eastside!!! Alphabet City!!! gardens! just that no one could afford to live there anymore.
Tompkins Sq park is now filled with small kids and dogs coming to dog run. So organicky cappuccino-ey and very white of them.
In one of the community garden, I bumped into mommy friend from grade school days and start to chat, lost the tour group.
from there went on my own way to visit Japanese friend of friend who own (OK rent) small gallery in “the other side” of Lower Eastside. gentrification brought nice bakery and bao sandwich shops and such to the same street but she is there no care in the world just as she’d always been, 30-40 years? I only know 20 some out of it.
her gallery was happened to having “free” charity concert for Japan relief and packed to the doorway. musicians are NYU students: so young, so clean, so earnest.
when crowd thins, I say hello.
she had no idea that such art festival was going on. New Museum is still a-new. how dare forget to invite this real community old timer!? I think to myself well knowing she really would give no s*hit.</p>

<p>she have been my inspiration. her math genius kid stayed at CMU forever and now got job in Europe, so I heard.
she asks about my kid who stop by when he is in the vicinity and only when I wouldn’t know that he did.
I say this and that.
“it never ends. you are the parent. forever, you know?”
I know. and happy mother’s day to us.</p>

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<p>I was talking about SAT in the other thread and it hit me
so
Cooper arranged the utmost important pre-college review on utmost important junior SAT date?
this is so very Cooer, but I can not recall happening it in the past.
for those might thinking missed the review, you should call them and check.
could be their website’s typo (happened many time)
or
make-up date (hey, you can dream)</p>

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<p>opens today, will report!!</p>

<p>[Science</a> Meets Art and Architecture at Cooper Union End of Year Show - WNYC Culture](<a href=“WNYC | New York Public Radio, Podcasts, Live Streaming Radio, News”>WNYC | New York Public Radio, Podcasts, Live Streaming Radio, News)</p>

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<p>17,175 views!!
ran thru the Cooper student show ^today since doing errand in the area.
It must have been the commencement day, kids in gown, families, the effigy of awful Peter Cooper was outside. the triangle park had nice food tables (no, I did not take advantage of it. no, no, Peter is right there watching)
it was much neater, cleaner than last year’s.
few student curated shows and advanced projects area, other than that pretty much categorized by discipline; print making, painting, drawing.
foundation kids are on 4th floor. one or two rockstar(?) got big/many pieces shown whatever the reason, while most kids got one something only.
It is interesting to know how do you suppose sell your proposals as frosh?<br>
need some more investigation for future wannabe kid.
as years progress, kids I gotten know thru livejournal or in person (my kid’s summer friend or EC class mate etc) are developing, all still stick to it and advancing (year wise, how do I know as an arist-wise? I hate to say it but I felt that few kids have lost ‘shine’ they had in proud hometest they’d posted on the web.)
anyway, it is a nice show.
big plus is that 8th floor, Peter Cooper suite is accessible to the public, showing arch thesis drawings. it got funny look out windows on all four sides. the view is great.
from the arched windows next to the big clock, you’d see how Bowery stretches from the tip of the triangle (now digging building something, let’s see what’s up) like, you are at the bow on the ship. parting wide ocean.
I’m the king of the world!!!
…
whoever in the area, check it out
open 12-7
Tue - Sat ( the guard guy said Sat closes at 5)
til mid June, ends on different dates depending on which school - arch, art, eng
I did not write down which is when. will report.</p>

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<p>17,200 and something views
<a href=“http://cooper.edu/summerwritingprogram/[/url]”>http://cooper.edu/summerwritingprogram/&lt;/a&gt;
I saw the poster when I went to the shiny building’s awful advanced project show
(plaster casted platform shoes, painted piano hanging midair, crisscrossed sticks on the wall with piece of crumpled paper…)
thought, cool! maybe my kid can do between summer job.
the poster suspiciously did not say usual “open to all NYC area HS senior blah blah”
so checked up the site and gawk!!
$2,500 for three weeks Mon-Thu 4hours a day
12days, 48 hours, more than 50 bucks per hour! that’s like NYU, Newschool or Kaplan test prep rate!!!
the way it placed “Classes are held in Cooper’s state-of-the-art, LEED-certified, Thom Mayne-designed building at 41 Cooper Square near Astor Place.” it seems that they got make money to pay off what have costed to build the shiny building…
my hope is that, all free art pre-college should be on simultaneously, while supplies last.</p>

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<p>save the Cooper! 17,400 something bump!!
went to guggenheim because now they got pay as you wish hours after 5:45 every saturday. line is mile long but moves quick, do not get discouraged.
the famed spiral gallery is under face lift-ing
everything is crammed in annex area. I just read Keith Haring Journal he said about how cramming showing reduce the value of masterpieces.
Is very true, side by side inches apart Kandinsky -s looked like student’s show.
funny thing is that, they got real kids’ show on fifth floor, made by public school kids partnered with the museum’s outreach.
the presentation was gorgeous, if low budget (lot’s of stickers and velcro mounting but so what, works are amazing. flood, tornado of colors. such freedom.)
there are large-sh painted figures fit for Calder Prize. I am not kidding!!!
then those tourist visiter would come and glance at it, says
“oh, I don’t wanna see this”
halooooo you are missing out!!!</p>

<p>big pull of the season is Hugo Boss winner on the second floor
<a href=“http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/exhibitions/on-view/hugo-boss-prize-2010[/url]”>http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/exhibitions/on-view/hugo-boss-prize-2010&lt;/a&gt;
award money was 100,000 dollars. he sticked that much of money in real one dollar bills covering entire wall floor to ceiling, and all the columns.
there is no way telling if it really is 100,000 of them in there, but see, lots of tiny bits makes something real big. what do you say here in America? where I came from we say
“4000 kilo meter trip begin with small one step”
I shall crunch pennies which make dollars which eventually make 100,000 dollars, which would about pay my kid’s schooling. </p>

<p>by the way, who decides who should be on the bill?
why Peter Cooper, the advocate of Green paper money could not be one of them? have to be president? how about that Sacagawea dollar coin?
I suggest they make 30 dollar bill, but Peter on it.
20 dollars is too little birthday money for even preteen kid, or thank you for small favor nowadays.(I didn’t think that but been told so)
but 50 is too much. to make 30 or 40, you’d need two bills and not that smooth.
what do you think?
where and whom should I propose to?</p>

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<p>see the post # 32
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/visual-arts-film-majors/927468-cooper-union-graphic-design-3.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/visual-arts-film-majors/927468-cooper-union-graphic-design-3.html&lt;/a&gt;
now, Mike and Doug Starn, twins SMFA MFAs are building bamboo forest in Venice
<a href=“http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=48006[/url]”>http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=48006&lt;/a&gt;
they are using some old stuff from the Met’s roof year ago. did they hear me made stink about waste and garbage bags of hacked branches or what?
they would be using some old material as “stem-cells” among new bamboo as they would build new structure elsewhere.
bamboo could withstand wear and tear but how long in what kind of weather or situation is questionable (outdoor conceptual contemporary temporally site specific art installation, not exactly a tea cottage which did withstand thousand years with superb maintenance with limited exposure to the public’s abuse, and in the same climate those very bamboo grew in)
let’s hope nothing break while people are on it. you’d fall into the canal.</p>

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<p>save the Cooper! 17,795 views
finally found the copy of new biography of Lee Krasner = Jackson Pollock’s widow
it was 1926 to 1928 Krasner attended Cooper Union. then
The Woman’s Art School
what it meant was that
“young women, who expected to be dependent on their exertions gaining a livelihood to obtain, free of cost, a training that will fit them for useful activity in art of one form or another”
what it meant was that
“design, applied arts, fashion, furniture, illustration, interior decoration, portrait and other painting or teaching of art”
so, those nice girls (293 of them in Krasner’s year) would be commercially trained to get jobs and make living after Cooper.
admission was first come first served as space become available. Helped if you studied art before or willing to put effort.
entrance to the building for men; mostly engineering students or evening class students- are separated from women’s, no interactions between but of course, except all male teachers for plaster casts drawing class that everyone had to do.
foot cast to torso, then full figure, you are going to be promoted.
after that finally you can draw live model.
Krasner left after two years to National Academy of Design for
“I decided I ought to do something more serious than Cooper Union”
gawk!!! imagine saying that nowadays.
irony is that. she would encounter the same awful fossilized plaster casts drawing teacher again at the academy.</p>

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<p>save the Cooper! 11,800 vies and bump
Ai Weiwei is this.
you can read the whole thing but best known for giving middle finger to series of landmarks from leading countries and million ceramic sunflower seeds that could not be displayed as it meant to be because of the dust it makes when people stepped on it.
<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ai_Weiwei[/url]”>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ai_Weiwei&lt;/a&gt;
was this when he was not yet famous.
<a href=“http://asiasociety.org/aiweiwei[/url]”>http://asiasociety.org/aiweiwei&lt;/a&gt;
I was going to see the show as usual on Friday night but free Friday no more just so Ai Weiwei’s show will be rightfully charged to whom it may concern enough to pay up.
for me, the slide show would do. love that captions are written in Chinese and English in such delicate handwriting. so young! skinny! </p>

<p>until mid July, there are bronze zodiac animals’ head sculptures in public view in front of the Plaza hotel.
twelve animal heads are standing on the weighed base submerged in the fountain. as if you can just pull it up and take it to somewhere else, since that’s what they are gonna do. heads will travel to LA and beyond.
When I saw them lining up, I thought it did not go together very well. the dragon is the coolest, the dog is neat, the snake is sharp in harry Pott-y way but rat and rabbit are too plain.
Ai Weiwei got houseful live-in henchmen who fabricate actual works for him, who knows who really did what.
In fact, they are enlarged replica of set of existing old fountain spouts but some of them are looted and gone missing. the artist had to complete the set of twelve animals from imagination by making up missing ones. If there is any inconsistency, that got to be the reason.
It was before the news of his release. there were “Free AI Weiwei” booth stood side by side with souvenir tent that selling screen printed zodiac animals goods.
protest while you consume!!
very free country!!!</p>

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<p>I got numeric dyslexia. it is 18,100 views and up
It’s holiday Saturday, beautiful lazy afternoon Jewish museum was free admission.
as if every stay-cation Jewish senior citizens from upper West to East were there.
[The</a> Jewish Museum - Special Exhibition - Collecting Matisse and Modern Masters: The Cone Sisters of Baltimore](<a href=“http://www.thejewishmuseum.org/exhibitions/conecollection]The”>http://www.thejewishmuseum.org/exhibitions/conecollection)
showing is too stiff and so very crowded to really look at paintings but short documentary film about sisters’ lives is neat, either at the room in the end of the exhibition (jammed) and upstairs theater (empty)</p>

<p>Dr. Claribel Cone(1864-1929) and Miss Etta Cone (1877-1949) could have been Kahn sisters; whose parents immigrated and made fortune while gotten Americanized life and family name to go with.
two maiden Victorian ladies loved to shop!! books, lace, fabrics and shoes.
and art.
Met Gertrude and Leo Stein in Paris and rest is a history. bought out modern art (would be) masterpieces people back then thought nothing about, and sent them back home from would be war torn Europe by steamship trunk loads full.
esp found of Matisse and in return he was quite taken by sisters even after he became famous.
They bought art because they wanted to live with it.
The sisters’ home was decorated by all these stuff they collected, even after one died. then another. not ever sold works for profits but left the whole thing to Baltimore Art Museum.</p>

<p>In the film, there was a bit about Picasso’s drawing of himself when Picasso was nobody and broke. saying pleasantries and showing his hat in his hand, suggesting asking for more support from the sisters.
the narrator asked how much the piece of paper would be valued now. The specialist was bit annoyed, saying it is not about money what sisters did. in fact they have given the gift to future generation to be able to see these works.
grand lives in grand era which began right after Peter Cooper’s time.
don’t make them like that anymore.</p>

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<p>don’t understand his art: Ai Weiwei.</p>

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<p>me neither, but you can read what he have to say in Chinese, yes?
do you agree with what he have been trying to do?
activism asides, I have a feeling that reason Ai Weiwei become household name is partly it’s catchy, easy to say and remember in any foreign languages.
for example, very well known artist here, yet still most American don’t know how to spell nor say his name
Cai Guo-Qiang
<a href=“http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en-us&q=Cai+Guo+Qiang&oe=UTF-8&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi[/url]”>http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en-us&q=Cai+Guo+Qiang&oe=UTF-8&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi&lt;/a&gt;
I’d still mix it up with Jedi master from Star Wars episode1.
what do you think of his works hun?</p>

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<p>I know Cai Guo-Qiang, his art looks cool but not sure if I understand that much. It seems like you have to be “unique”, using fire powder … is his way.
you are right, Ai weiwei use some chinese to sound bad to the govenment like :</p>

<p>草泥马挡中央, “grass mud horse covering the middle”: </p>

<p>草泥马:“grass mud horse” mean:
(草)****ing (泥)your (马)mom. The sound mean that.</p>

<p>挡中央"covering the middle" mean:
(挡) party(中) middle (央) area, together the sound means the chinese Communism party.</p>

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<p>now I got it. English explanation did not make sense, I thought mother=mother country.
so tyu-ou (that’s how we read, I bet you don’t) means middle or communism party
ma is a horse, and we are horses!!! what animal is dad?
I can not post with chinese letters. It come out as ??? marks.
how did you do that?
how come sou (weed) can be fu*ck
dei (mud) can be glass?
and
why are we horse? Is it just sound or any back story?</p>

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<p>oh I got it (did I?)
dei (mud) means "your’
but why?
and naked artist is holding some figure in the photo that now I know some internet character “grass mud horse”
nothing to do with glass.
there are whole lot of “grass mud horse” goods</p>

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<p>It is Homophone, the sound make that meaning, get it?</p>

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<p>It is Homophone:
草泥马 --操你妈
挡中央 --党中央
you can google 操你妈, 党中央.</p>

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<p>now I really got it
sou=misao is your er, virginity, dei is tai, coupling, ma is mom with woman part on the side of the letter meaning horse.
tou is ategau, put on, which sounds same as political party, tou.
I am ken Zui/Tou shi-ing. wow.
soooo how do you post chinese letters? what program do you lift from?</p>

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<p>Cy Twombly
<a href=“http://www.google.com/images?q=cy+twombly&btnG=Search&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&client=firefox-a&oi=image_result_group&sa=X&aq=f&aqi=g-e2g-z1g7&aql=&oq=[/url]”>http://www.google.com/images?q=cy+twombly&btnG=Search&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&client=firefox-a&oi=image_result_group&sa=X&aq=f&aqi=g-e2g-z1g7&aql=&oq=&lt;/a&gt;
died yesterday, 83
of cancer
at Rome</p>

<p>what sad is that news just broke and wikipedia already updated him dead.
there will be more to come. collectors, dealers, benefactors, benefiters must be getting busy all over the world.</p>

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<p>I have Chinese software to support me get them in word and I can copy and paste over here.
when my Dad fly over here his seat near a Japanese old man. they “talk” by writing Chinese characters feel funny!<br>
When I read the title to D, she get the sound right away and she think it is cool and clever.</p>